Quote Originally Posted by Ludens View Post

And the Venus of Milo represents the typical female warrior rather than a beauty ideal? Women warriors were most likely though, sturdily-built women whose sexual characteristics had been suppressed by constant physical exercise. And I doubt the women mentioned in this thread used chest-plates: Boudicca and Tomyris because their cultures didn't know them, Cleopatra because she didn't fight, and Zenobia because she is described as an archer (and probably also didn't fight).
Well true that is, my point is wouldn't they be uncomfortable, either with big ones or small ones using a male unsupported armor, and even id they didn't use them i'm sure that they used clothes creating the "sexist armor plate" except that it is a piece of cloth, i was just saying that to contradict the point of the "sexist armor plate" for it's un-comfortability to use a male non-sexist armor plate, but big or small, they'd bound to be supported, protected and at least with a certain degree of comfort. Armors were designed for men because in those cultures, women fighters were almost impossible to find.